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Home > Departments > Development Services > Planning > Planning Services Division
The Division of Planning Services performs many different services for the citizens of Cape Girardeau. These services include planning and zoning issues, housing assistance, enterprise zone, property acquisitions for new streets and utilities, downtown revitalization, historic preservation, administration of State and Federal Grants, and staff support for the Planning Commission, the Historic Preservation Commission, the Downtown Special Business District, the City Council and City Manager’s Office. The Division also administers rezoning applications, special use permit applications, historic landmark applications, Certificates of Appropriateness, and subdivision plats. Planning Services has a large variety of maps that may be reviewed or purchased. Maps include zoning, streets, enterprise zone, floodplain and floodway maps. Planimetric and topographic maps are also available. Fees for maps vary by size and type. The U.S. Geological Service at Mid-Continent Mapping Center in Rolla, Missouri , has Cape Girardeau data now online. The project web site is http://mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov .
On the 100th anniversary of “It is not our purpose to inflict upon the readers of this work an endless array of historical data. Neither shall we delve deeply or minutely into the dead past – the past is gone; the present is here; the future is to be as the people of Cape Girardeau may make it by determining to take advantage of every opportunity to advance their own and the municipality’s interest.” “Cape Girardeau, although one of the oldest towns in the state, is in every particular a city of the present….” D.B. Casteel, Mayor, City of |
